Because Bao Zheng refused to organize the people to carry out the great cause of exterminating locusts, Hua Lang had to find a way to get those people to do it.

But what can be done to make those people dare to attack the locusts?

The fear of locusts among these people has been passed down for thousands of years, and has basically penetrated into the depths of their hearts, and it is not possible for them to destroy locusts overnight.

Therefore, without the support of the imperial court, it is really difficult and difficult to exterminate locusts.

Hua Lang thought about it for a night, but he didn't think of any good way, and it wasn't until the next morning when Wen Meng brought the rice that he suddenly realized a very important solution.

Since coming to Huainan, he has eaten rice for almost three meals a day, and he has eaten rice to his stomach, but because there is too little rice, he still has to eat, think about it, he has not eaten meat for many days.

And the method he came up with was related to eating.

In Hua Lang's memory, he remembered that Li Shizhen said in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that locusts are a kind of medicinal herbs, which can cure many diseases, and locusts in addition to curing diseases, there is also a very rich nutritional value, the meat is soft, fresh and tender, and the taste is as delicious as shrimp, which is simply a rare delicacy.

Thinking of this, Hua Lang suddenly became excited, so he hurriedly said to Wen Meng: "After eating rice for so many days, are you tired of eating?" ”

Although Wen Meng was born in the south and grew up eating rice, she has followed Hua Lang to so many places and eaten so many kinds of food, and now let him eat rice every day, she is really a little tired of it, and now she can hear Hua Lang ask like this, according to the nearly ten years of getting along, she knows that Hua Lang must have come up with some new tricks, otherwise he would not have asked like this.

So at this time, Wen Meng hurriedly said, "I'm tired of eating, do you have anything else for us to eat?" ”

Hua Lang smiled: "Yes, and there are a lot of them?" ”

"What?"

"O locusts!"

"Locusts?" Wen Meng was a little surprised, she was like other people in this era, she thought that locusts were natural disasters, and God punished the people to get them, and she couldn't eat them at all, and now she heard Hua Lang suddenly say that she wanted to eat locusts, how could she not be surprised?

At this time, Hua Lang nodded: "Yes, eat locusts, what's the matter, Miss Wen doesn't dare to eat them?" ”

Wen Meng, as a child of the rivers and lakes, did not insist that locusts should not be eaten like others, and now listening to Hua Lang say this, he knew that she was agitating herself, but she still couldn't help but want to show a little pride, and said: "If there is anything you dare not eat, I am afraid that you will not be able to make delicious food, so that I will have no appetite to eat." ”

Hua Lang smiled: "You can rest assured about this, my cooking skills in the entire Great Song Dynasty, I dare to say that it is the first in the world, no one can compare." ”

It's not that Hua Lang brags, he knows more cooking skills than people in this era, and Wen Meng and they all believe it very much, after all, when they were in Chang'an, they ate so many delicacies that they had never eaten before.

Now that he heard Hua Lang say this, Wen Meng suddenly snorted coldly and said, "Okay, I want to see how you make delicious food." ”

After saying this, Wen Meng and Yin Wufeng Wen Feng went outside to catch locusts, at this time there were a lot of locusts outside, and many of them could almost be described as rushing to the face, so it was not difficult to catch many locusts, and in the time of a stick of incense, several of them each caught a full five catties of locusts, and carried so many locusts back, but everyone on the street was curious to death.

After returning to Huainan Mansion, Bao Zheng was very surprised when he saw that Wen Meng and the others had caught so many locusts, and hurriedly asked, "Brother and sister, what are you doing here?" Just rely on the locusts caught by a few of you, what can be used, I think it's better to forget it, when winter comes, these locusts will naturally disappear. ”

Wen Meng shrugged his shoulders and said, "Brother Yi, we don't want to destroy locusts, but we're tired of eating rice these days, Hua Lang said that he wants to cook with locusts for us, so we caught him and saw what good meals he can make, Brother Yi has also heard that he is a great cook, why don't you come and try it too?" ”

According to Bao Zheng's previous character, he naturally wouldn't say that he would eat locusts, but at this time he was very curious about Hua Lang's cooking skills, so he still took the dynasty Ma Han Zhang Long Zhao Hu and Gongsun Curator Zhan Zhao and others to the kitchen of Huainan Mansion, which is more Huainan Mansion, so all the condiments in the kitchen are still very complete, Hua Lang saw that Wen Meng and others had caught the locusts, so they asked them to wash the locusts in salt water, and then drain them, and then he threw them into the oil pan very casually and fried. Just looking at it, I have an appetite and want to take a bite.

But because it was a locust, although everyone smelled the fragrance and wanted to eat it, no one was willing to put down the chopsticks first.

Faced with this situation, Hua Lang smiled indifferently, picked up a locust and put it in his mouth, and ate it with relish, everyone saw that Hua Lang had eaten it, so he hurriedly followed to eat, so after eating, it felt very similar to the taste of prawns, and it was more fragrant than prawns, so that a plate of flying locusts Tengda was swept away by everyone.

After eating, they pestered Hua Lang to continue frying, so Hua Lang fried several more plates, until everyone was full, and then stopped.

After eating like this, Bao Zheng couldn't help but sigh and said: "I really didn't expect that this fried locust would be so delicious, and it also has such a good name, Flying Locust Tengda, good, good!" ”

Hearing Bao Zheng say this, Hua Lang knew that his goal had been achieved, so he smiled and said: "Brother Bao, now we have only enough food left to distribute a few days' worth of porridge, and we can eat locusts to our heart's content, so why not let the people catch locusts and then fry them themselves, so that we can have a lot of rations left, and also buy time for us to get more food." ”

If it was before, Bao Zheng would definitely not agree, but now that he has eaten these locusts fried by Hua Lang, he has changed his mind, and he feels that Hua Lang is very right, now they really don't have much food left, and how to deal with the profiteers who sell rice here They haven't come up with a way yet, maybe this locust can really be used to deal with it for a few days.

After thinking about it like this, Bao Zheng nodded and said: "Brother Hua is right, I will order the people to go down and let the people catch locusts to eat, so if they can survive for a while, this locust can be regarded as a meritorious service." ”